Death & Dying
Book VII, 638
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
The poor mother, when the expected fate of her two sons was reversed, spoke thus, clasping both of them: “Neither did I hope, my child, to weep for thee to-day, nor, my child, to see thee yet among the living. Now your fates have been interchanged, but sorrow undeniable has come to me.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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